Wedding band found at Colonie Center

A reader wrote me the following note. If this is your ring, contact me and I will facilitate the connection between you and the person who found the ring:

I found a woman’s wedding band outside of Macy’s and would like it to be returned to its owner. I have checked with both Macy’s and Colonie Center and no one has reported it lost. There are very identifiable marks on the ring (initials and a wedding date). I am reluctant to put my phone number or other information in the newspaper, etc. and would like to know if you can help me find the owner.

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Hey I thought the same thing! Wedding band, as in music! Guess that means I am old because I don’t think people use bands anymore do they – mostly DJ’s? Anyway, there is a lost and found section on Craigslist – try that. See if anyone posted about losing a ring. If not then post what you found, except the identifying marks of course. You don’t have to put your phone number on Craigslist.

You could always turn it over to the police department and put their phone number as the one to contact. Than you don’t have to feel bad that you could not find the person and in 30 days the ring becomes yours. Trust me, honesty is not what it is cracked up to be. I tried to find the owner of a ring by posting flyers, no one contacted me and I still have the ring. Good Luck.

Here’s a good question that could be a column for Kristi…What is the etiquette in these situations for the finder and the keeper?

I feel the finder should make every attempt to find the owner within reason. I would hope someone would do the same for me. I like the police idea but they aren’t really going to look for anyone (lack of resources, etc.)

Several years ago I found a class ring amongst some silver and other costume jewelry that belonged to my grandparents. My late grandfather had found a class ring in the late 70′s while working at the Albany Airport. The ring was not from a local school, and back then they had no way of really easily tracking people down so I guess he hung on to it in the case someone ever returned. I located the school on the internet, which was not too far away in Western Mass and called the office. After a conversation with the secretary she located the individual with the initials on the ring from that year. As luck would have it the phone number in her records was still good for his parents and I was put in contact with his mother. Apparently, the man was in the Air Force and was home on leave when he took off the ring to wash his hands and forgot it on the sink. I was glad I was able to return it to him some 30 years later. I sent it to his mother, UPS at my expense.

I never received so much as a call to say it arrived or even a “Thank You” . I mean we shouldn’t do nice things for others just to be rewarded, but one would think that a small note of thanks, or an offer to pay for postage was in order.

When my father died at his place of business in 1969, I had the sad task of getting his belongings from the police station. His rings were in the envelope, including a wedding band he took from his mother when she passed many years before. I put the band on my finger and never removed it except to give to my eldest daughter, for whom my father is named. She had it several years until losing it, just a couple of months ago, in a parking lot in the upper Union Street business district. She was so afraid to tell me that I learned of it about a week later and searched that lot to no avail. With the snow that came and went and came again, it was useless. I went to several of the businesses but no one had found it and reported their find to those businesses. I still hope that it may be possible to regain that lost ring, which has so much sentimental value attached to it. It was my grandmother’s, then my father’s, then mine. I know my daughter feels badly about losing it but I keep thinking if she had told me right away, maybe between us we’d have found it. I do hope that ring found at Colonie Center is returned to its owner.